Question

Search the internet for a recent news event (i.e., within the last six months) about scientific advances in supporting wellness. The event should come from a well-known news source, such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR, PBS, BBC, National Geographic, The New York Times, and so on. Post a link to the news story, and in your initial post, identify the following:

Summarize your news story and its contributions to the science or STEM fields.

If your news event is overtly related to wellness, how does this event contribute to wellness studies? If your news event does not directly relate to wellness, how could the science behind your event be applied to wellness studies?

Answer 1

A MUSICAL MILESTONE

Music being an important part of life should be implied to our life from as early as possible.But who thought with advancement in science it might be possible for amateur infants to have music control their sleep/wake or interaction patterns.

Developed by neonatologist Petra Huppi, researcher Manuela Filippa, and composer Andreas Vollenweider, the project involves scanning babies’ brains via MRI as they listen and comparing the scans to those of babies who were not exposed to the music.

Although only initial benefits are being obtained ; advance research would always add more benefits to the research .The process involves a headphone specially made for fragile heads of the babies. Parents especially mother during her pregnancy is advised to listen to soothing music which directly affects child's minds  but this advancement is boon to those who are prematurely born.

"At University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, music is folded into the care plan for some preemies. But unlike other NICU music programs, this novel project features three specific songs, which babies listen to through special headphones made for tiny, fragile heads. The songs are part of an ongoing study that aims to understand how music affects a preterm newborn’s brain and how well it can recognize melody, tempo, and pitch—skills likely related to language processing."